I am an artist, graphic designer, photographer, web developer and IT specialist. I am always in search of the next project or challenge. My main focus, and most intense learning is in the LAMP Stack, and WordPress. I’ve been using WordPress from version 1 on down. Aside from WordPress I’ve worked on magazines, and promotional material to support the marketing department, and outside clients. I’ve also worked with branding, and have built brands in the past. I have real world experience in networking businesses and insuring that technology facilitates business functions.

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Graphic Designer

I have held a total of four separate positions as a graphic designer tasked to develop a variety of marketing materials.

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Web Developer

Each position led to web design, where I’ve used a variety of CMS platforms, server equipment, and scripting skills.

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IT Specialist

Because I work in web design, networks simply became familiar to me, and I was depended upon in this area.

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Photography

What other excuse to climb a mountain, or backpack through the Amazon. Every chance I get I’m outside with a camera.

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Graphic Design Experience

Adobe Photoshop (CS6)91%91%

Adobe Illustrator (CS6)84%84%

Adobe Indesign (CS6)92%92%

Adobe Dreamweaver (CS6)88%88%

The Printing Process98%98%

The Macintosh98%98%

The Personal Computer98%98%

Objective

To gain further depth and experience in the fields of Photography, Graphic Design, Web Design, and Information Technology to a point where that depth can impact and influence those trades.

Education

Ivy Tech Community College Columbus, Indiana August 2004 to April 2007Associates Degree in Visual Communications with a Specialty in Web Design and Photography

The primary function of this position was to lay out magazine articles into an established brand, and to design various marketing materials for the Catholic Diocese. In addition to act as the supervisor for technical companies maintaining server equipment and company infrastructure. One of the highlights in the network administration part of this position was restructuring the automated voice prompt phone system. As the collapse of 2008 gained momentum positions at this business dwindled.

I developed five separate corporate franchise businesses mainly dealing with taxes and accounting for Lee’s Tax City. This position included developing all branding and marketing material in both print and web. Managing ecommerce functionality across all five Joomla! CMS platforms, and insuring transactions consolidated down to one income stream and one membership hub. When we arrived at a final product the business owners failed to apply the concept due to low demand and other administrative complications pertaining to the business structure. Lee’s Tax City returned to exclusively running a tax prep franchise. I decided to seek out more stable employment.

Corporate Advanced Services managed a startup business called Senior Talk. Under this business name I developed promotional material for a variety of trendy “As Seen on TV” products. When the companies phone was discovered to have a serious flaw (the 911 button would not contact 911) the business collapsed. During my time at CAS I carried two full time positions in web development & graphic design, as well as information technology manager for the Ghoman Brothers.

The Ghoman Brothers – Information Technology Manager 2010 to 2014

I managed the technology needs of two hotels, and three pizza franchise locations. Work consisted of one part marketing department, one part IT department, and backup hotel accounting. I developed any promotional material needed for an array of businesses. Troubleshooting and networking business computers, printers, credit card machines, security cameras, and any other equipment needs was a common task. After the Ghoman Brothers started loosing their franchises I began searching for a stable position.

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Web Development Experience

WordPress Development94%94%

Joomla Development43%43%

Drupal Development62%62%

Android App Development77%77%

PHP & MySQL (Still Learning)47%47%

CSS & HTML98%98%

JavaScript (Still Learning)56%56%

Python (Just Started Learning)22%22%

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Information Technology Experience

Network Communications88%88%

Server Security76%76%

Web Server Setup and Maintenance94%94%

MySQL Database Manipulation69%69%

Apache66%66%

PHPMyAdmin88%88%

WebMin97%97%

Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)67%67%

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Three Dimentional Design

Parting Words

My latest endeavors are not at a skill level I can tally up really. Only that they involve Blender 3D and Python programming. I would never have reached for such ambitious expertise without first gaining all the above skills. This work is brilliantly amazing, and I’ll post everything I do on this website. Thank you for stopping by my humble corner of the internet to evaluate my skills.